Uncle Allen's Party in Palestine (Classic Reprint)
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But Philip refused to tell what he knew of contending armies of olden times upon these fields, or how the frightened forces of Arabi Pasha, about fifteen years ago, gathered here after the bombardment and fall of Alexandria, and the last blow was given to his cause by English arms.
It was agreed that they should spend a short time at Ismailia before taking ship at Port Said, and all enjoyed the fruit and flowers growing in abundance in the pretty little city which is located midway on the Suez Canal, between the Mediterranean and Red Sea, at the Bitter Lakes, through which the canal runs.
I would have enjoyed being here when the Suez Canal was completed and the in auguration ceremonies took place, said Cousin Serena. It seems to me like the cementing of international friendship, when Europe and the East joined hands and a new impulse was given to commerce.
As they neared Port Said, Katharine was ecstatic, for from this point they were to embark for Joppa, Palestine.
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A Decade of Foreign Missions, 1880-1890 (Classic Reprint)
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Executive Committee of Woman's Societies Missouri Resolutions and Centennial of Missions. London Missionary Conference - Preparations for it.
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Around the World With Eyes Wide Open: The Wonders of the World Pictured by the Pen and Pencil 1898
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Two centuries of the First Baptist church of South Carolina, 1683-1883. With supplement
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Henry Allen Tupper was a Baptist clergyman and denominational leader in foreign missionary enterprises.
Background
Henry Allen Tupper was born on February 29, 1828 in Charleston, S. C. He was the son of Tristram-a native of Dresden, Me. , and Eliza (Yoer) Tupper.
His first American ancestor was Thomas Tupper, a descendant of exiles from Hesse Cassel to England, who emigrated to New England in 1635, and in 1637 was one of the founders of Sandwich, Massachussets. Tristram settled in Charleston in 1810 and thereafter conducted a commission house. For more than fifty years the Tupper family was prominent in the business, social, and religious affairs of the city.
Education
Henry attended local schools and from 1844 to 1846 was a student in the College of Charleston. He then enrolled at Madison University (now Colgate University), Hamilton, N. Y. , where he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1849. The following year he spent at the theological seminary connected with the University, and was much influenced by the prevailing missionary zeal.
Career
In 1850 he was ordained to the Baptist ministry and became pastor of the church in Graniteville, S. C. Three years later he accepted a call to the church at Washington, Ga. , where he served until 1872.
He was active in local temperance work, preached to the African Americans twice a week, and gave the community a varied leadership. He traveled abroad and dreamed of active mission work in foreign fields, even going so far as to plan a self-sustaining colony in Japan.
With the advent of the Civil War, however, he took part in that struggle as chaplain of a Georgia regiment in the Confederate army.
His real lifework began when he accepted, in 1872, the office of corresponding secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Southern Baptist Convenion, with headquarters in Richmond. To the missionary enterprises of his denomination he now gave tirelessly of his strength, thought, and means.
In 1883-84 he went to Mexico and consummated plans for establishing mission schools for girls in Coahuila.
In 1883 he recorded that he had received "from the Lord" since 1854 in income $279, 500. 98, and of that sum had donated $124, 541. 39 for religious work.
In his vacations he wrote several books for young people of a type considered suitable for Sunday school libraries. They included The Truth in Romance (1887), published under the pseudonym Tf"ffer, the old German spelling of his family name; and The Carpenter's Son (1889), an interpretation of the life of Christ.
His major works, however, were a lengthy history and survey of the mission enterprise, under the title The Foreign Missions of the Southern Baptist Convention (1880), and A Decade of Foreign Missions, 1880-90 (1891).
He retired from the secretaryship of the mission board in 1893. For a time he was president of the board of trustees of the Woman's College of Richmond, and he served, also, as a trustee of Hollins College and of Richmond College.
In his closing years, 1896-1902, he was instructor in Bible in Richmond College.
He died on March 27, 1902.
Achievements
Henry Allen Tupper was an outstanding missionary, whose major works were The Foreign Missions of the Southern Baptist Convention (1880), and A Decade of Foreign Missions, 1880-90 (1891).
